“Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.”
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<p>In The Magnificent Defeat, Frederick Buechner examines what it means to follow Christ, the lessons of Christmas and Easter, the miracles of grace, and "the magnificent defeat" of the human soul of God.</p>
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Frederick Buechner
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“Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.”
“Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessed...”
“Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.”
“Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who i...”
“If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without proof. And of course that is the only way it could be. If it could be somehow proved, then...”
“There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.”
“And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real...”
“It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.”